Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Working With Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10 Java JDK/JRE ,Chrome and Android

Recently i updated my Linux system to 13.10 and to my greatest pleasure and frustration i ran into couple of issues :D

Here is a brief of what i faced and how it got resolved, hope this will help you get your stuff too! :)

In this post we will install Chrome, Instal Java7 and setup Android SDK. So lets beginINSTALLING GOOGLE CHROME
Well i am a great fan of Google Chrome but was upset with the fact that Google has not yet updated their application to support latest libraries, thus when you install Ubuntu 13.04 and above you will find that there are couple of dependencies that are unsatisfied.

Once above is installed you can simply download the application from google and run the deb file. You should be able to install Chrome now :)

INSTALLING JAVA
This has been a very prolonged issues as Oracle as not been able to make its way in Canonical repositories andUbuntu has been pushing openjdk and other open Java.
Again if you are a developer the you will be better off with Oracle Java only.

No worries simply follow the following steps:

First remove openjdk from your system: sudo apt-get purge openjdk*

Now install oracle java 7 in ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

Follow the installation steps

That its now you can check installed java version by typing : java -version

CONFIGURING ANDROID SDK

Even if you have downloaded Android SDK you will not be able to run adb you will get follwoing issue all the time. error=2 No such file or directory'while attempting to get adb version from

This is due to missing ia32-lib which is not available for 13.04 and above hence you need to individual install libraries required for adb